Treatment of primary, recurrent or inadequately resected high-risk soft-tissue sarcomas (STS) of adults: Results of a phase II pilot study (RHT-95) of neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with regional hyperthermia

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 1609-1616

  Wendtner, C M ^a,b   Abdel Rahman, S ^a   Baumert, J ^c   Falk, M H ^a   Krych, M ^a   Santl, M ^a   Hiddemann, W ^a   Issels, R D ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

High risk; Local failure free survival; Overall survival; Regional hyperthermia (RHT); Soft tissue sarcoma; Thermochemotherapy

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STATISTICS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IFOSFAMIDE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034880295     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(01)00191-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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